Chapter 923: Ambush at all levels

"Come to two teams, fight with me!" In the elite of the Tang Army's Xuanjia, a general, Duan Zhixuan, yelled, and he was responsible for opening the way for the forward.

As Li Shimin's right-hand man, most of the people died and descended, Zhang Gongjin and others have been promoted and used by Dahua after being captured, and there are not many generals that Li Shimin can use at present.

Duan Zhixuan led his troops to rush to kill, and the cavalry of the two hundreds, wielding long knives and spears, rushed towards the city gate.

"Poof! Burst! โ€

The Dahua soldiers guarding the city were caught off guard and were slashed by this suddenly rushing ironclad cavalry, their heads rolling, their stumps falling to the ground, and they were stained with blood.

The Dahua soldiers at the head of the city had already taken control of the city wall, and at this time they drew their bows and arrows to stop the cavalry from attacking.

The knight of the Xuanjia was armed with a short crossbow and began to return fire, and relied on the iron armor and Teng shield to resist the cold arrow attack.

Because the city gate at the entrance of this cave was also blown open, it was not blocked for a while, so it was convenient for the Dahua army outside the city to enter.

The reinforcements that Dahua ambushed outside the East City had already entered Jinyang City for a wave, and as soon as the second wave outside arrived, the Xuanjia elite broke through.

"Gun formation!" Hou Junji happened to be the commander outside the East City Gate, and when he saw that there were Tang cavalry inside, he immediately asked the infantry phalanx outside to set up a gun formation to block it.

"Sonorous ......"

The spearmen of the Dahua army stood in front, the armor leaves on their bodies were sonorous, holding thick shields and spears, lined up in a dense formation, there were more than ten rows, arranged in an arc, blocking the way out of the city.

The spears were raised high, the edges were pointing upward, and then with the order of the captain and centurion, these spearmen staggered to occupy their positions, and then fell to their knees on one knee, and the spears pointed forward at different angles, forming a three-dimensional defensive gun array.

This formation, a repelling rifle formation designed to deal with cavalry charges, can act like a humanoid wall, allowing cavalry to storm and stop.

However, after Duan Zhixuan rushed out with people, he was acting as a death squad, with the heart of death, as long as he sought a way out for His Royal Highness King Qin, so even after seeing this shot Lin Tie Array, he still pounced without hesitation.

"Rush to kill, go out of a bloody way!"

Duan Zhixuan commanded the vanguard and was responsible for digging a bloody road and breaking through, so he ignored the danger of life and death.

Under the light of the torches, several squads of cavalry rushed out of the city gate one after another, and then killed the horse rejecting rifle formation.

The sharp spear edge, which made the horse tremble and roar, was full of fear, but the knight regarded death as if he were at home, and still pounced on the reins, like a moth to a fire, and the sharp tip of the spear pierced through the horse's heart and chest, and penetrated obliquely through the back of the horse, and some of the knights on it were also nailed to it.

Some knights knew that they were going to die, and before they died, they waved their long knives and slashed them hard, and from time to time they would hack to death and slash Dahua's soldiers.

"Throw the explosive pack!"

Hou Junji gave the order, and many soldiers threw out explosives packets, and arrows tied to torch belts were shot, detonating the explosives packets, and there was a roar of explosion.

Some of the Xuanjia cavalry and war horses that were killed in an instant screamed again and again, the horses wailed, and the wounded and corpses with broken arms and legs continued to appear.

However, Duan Zhixuan commanded the death squad to rush forward, using the defense and speed of the iron cavalry to break through the horse rejection gun array and the infantry phalanx.

In this way, wave after wave of cavalry fell, and the rear continued to press, and those Dahua soldiers with spears bore the brunt of the casualties.

Duan Zhixuan couldn't help but tear his eyes when he saw Brother Pao Ze die so tragically here.

He reined in his horse, swept with a spear in one hand, and slashed with a sword in the other, killing several people head-on, and led people to continue to rush forward.

There was a bloody atmosphere ahead, and I didn't know how much casualties the two sides had paid, so the Tang Army's Xuanjia elite cavalry had to make a bloody way.

With the rumbling iron cavalry speeding by, Li Shimin and Li Daoxuan were mixed in the team, and broke out of the encirclement of the infantry phalanx outside the city, leaving only more than 1,000 people, and a group of soldiers trapped in the city and outside the city gate, insisting on fighting hard, and finally died under the knife.

"Driveโ€”"

More than 1,000 surviving Xuanjia cavalry broke through and ran wildly in the night, smoke and dust billowing out.

"Chase!"

Hou Junji pursued with 5,000 light cavalry, and he had already recognized this elite Xuanjia, and guessed that the second prince of the Tang Dynasty, Li Shimin, the king of Qin, was likely to be mixed in, so he naturally refused to let go of this opportunity.

In this way, the two teams, one in front of the other and the other behind, could not be separated by a mile, one fled, and the other pursued.

From a few miles away, suddenly the war horse that was running in front suddenly neighed, and was carried by the stumbling horse rope under his feet, and some horses stepped on the thistle bush, and the war horse fell miserably, and the man turned over on his back.

Immediately, arrows were shot from the mountains and forests, enveloping the group of Xuanjia elite riders.

It is impossible to have no ambushes on the way, and the Dahua army has long been prevented, so even if the Tang army breaks through the city, it will still be ambushed.

Woohoo!

The arrows burst through the air, and they shot indiscriminately.

By the time they rushed through this ambush level, the number of Xuanjia elite riders was only five or six hundred.

The army brought by Hou Junji is also approaching, and the situation is becoming more and more crisis.

When turning a mountain pass, Li Shimin took more than a dozen loyal guards, right-hand henchmen, such as Lei Yongji, Xue Bin, Cao Li and others, broke away from the team and rushed into a mountain and forest path.

After the war horse entered the mountain forest, several people quickly picked off the horse, removed the outer layer of armor, and then quickly walked into the forest.

Under the darkness of the night, the pursuers who followed behind did not notice it at all, and pursued the Tang army team in front non-stop.

"This way!"

Li Shimin dressed in a samurai uniform, a brocade robe and a jade belt, and carried a sword in his hand, and under the protection of more than a dozen guards, he entered the depths of the mountain.

After walking for about a few hundred meters, I met some warriors in chivalrous clothes in a clearing.

"I've seen King Qin, I've been waiting here for many days." A martial artist from the Pure Yang Sect stepped forward, and after the code, he greeted Li Shimin and the others.

Li Shimin nodded, he had received flying pigeons from outside Jinyang City earlier, several hidden world sects sent masters, formed a chivalrous alliance, and waited outside the city, once the city was broken and King Qin broke through, he could choose to meet here, and these martial arts masters would escort him to a safe place.

This chivalrous alliance is dominated by the Mending Heaven Pavilion, and several hidden sects such as the Pure Yang Sect and the Ancient Sword Sect have about forty or fifty people, but most of them are some outstanding disciples of the sect who are good at using swords.

"You're a hero." King Qin said politely.

"Well said!" Some swordsmen returned the salute.

At this moment, Li Shimin looked up and saw a beautiful figure standing on a tree trunk, with white clothes fluttering, covered by a veil, the classical and graceful outline was half hidden and half revealed, the moth eyebrows were like the moon, the eyes were deep and bright, and the figure was slender and slender, but there was a coldness that rejected people thousands of miles away.